The Judge who recently ordered a new inquiry into the conviction of David Harold Eastman has lashed out at the ACT Government's attitude to the matter and vowed not to work in Canberra again.

Eastman is serving a life sentence for the murder of Australian Federal Police assistant commissioner Colin Winchester.

Eastman lost a judicial review in 2005.

In March visiting Judge Shane Marshall rejected an application for a new inquiry, but that was overturned by the Court of Appeal.

Today the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Jon White asked for the terms of the new inquiry to be clarified.

But Justice Marshall accused the DPP of filing an application which did not seek to vary the court's orders but rather to argue with them.

"The entire saga of the Eastman jurisdictional issue has been attended with a bizarre attitude by the DPP," he said.

"The DPP now seeks to further muddy the waters in an inappropriate way."

He then took aim at the ACT Government saying the only way to secure the inquiry would be for the Government to have the intestinal fortitude to order an inquiry itself.

Justice Marshall told the court he plans not to work in the ACT again.

"This whole sorry saga is the reason why I will not be making myself available to sit again on this court in any capacity once my reserved judgments in three recent Court of Appeal matters have been published," he said.

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